True Chris BUT there is some sense in this proposal - the selling off part, and moving to a more modest locale, forget the niche stuff and the state takeover - if it could only be taken seriously. I am not holding my breath.

Although he does manage to state the rather obvious truth with respect to the House of Bishops specifically and General Convention generally: “Beware of mad men in high places.”
Or perhaps better put: “Beware of godless men in God’s place(s).”

That being said, I also think it’s funny. But, I know that I have an odd sense of humor. The part about “Instead of a family history library we hire a crack team of psychics and futurists to staff our family future library. People will go to Salt Lake to learn about their ancestors, then on to Helena to learn about their descendants,” slays me. There are folks in TEC who believe in that stuff.

The western hat looks like it’s tastefully designed, and of high quality. That cannot be said about the PB’s oven mitt.

One way to control something so as though they mattered again - having squandered the mattering elsewhere. And lets be clear about what type of enclave this is: an Episcopalian Enclave. The use of Anglican, when TEc has so clearly walked apart from most of the world’s Anglicans, is facetious in the extreme.

“But the mega-churches lose people as fast as the bring them in and the Baptists have lost more people in recent years than our entire membership.”
There is a really sharp implication in this for those in TEC to contemplate:
Q. Why have the pentecostals and baptists lost more people than our entire membership?
A. Because they could…

#17 How dare you! Don’t sick this mob on Montana, though I understand there are some depopulating counties where rootless Episcopalians could probably help fixing fences and digging ditches. It might do them some good.